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I found it interesting that the pundits on NPR are claiming that this change may be intended to blunt competition from Android by keeping developers on iOS, as

I found it interesting that the pundits on NPR are claiming that this change may be intended to blunt competition from Android by keeping developers on iOS, as well as suggesting that this change may have been in response to FTC concerns. I love how one can view both closing and opening the license as hurting the competition. Doublethink is alive and well.

rsingel 16y ago
As the author of the article, I'd argue that the evidence that the FTC is talking to developers about tools (not so much about blocking Flash) shows that Apple was feeling FTC pressure. Jobs argued hard, and not unpersusasively, that third-party tools weren't the best for the ecosystem, so I think it's likely this reversal isn't what they want, but what they think they need to do to avoid a PR embarrassment from an FTC action or formal settlement.